I must resist the urge to buy pretty, pretty lino carving tools. Doesn't matter that they're only $30 for a set - I really can't justify it when at the moment I'm only doing the lino-block equivalent of doodling. But they're sharp and pretty and proper tempered steel ( Read more... )

So yeah. It's that time of the month... when I go from baking extra-chocolaty macadamia nut cookies to being positively gleeful over finding the IMFDB: Internet Movie Firearms Database. GAH. And then watching youtube clips of people firing guns with suppressors.

( cut to save you from rampant blathering. You Have Been Warned. )

Today I attempted to be productive. I dropped Jake off at work so I could have the car, went to the bank, went back to give Jake the lunch he had forgotten at home, went grocery shopping, came home, took a short break to download internets for Hamsters, (how much Castle did we send you last time?) started cleaning the bathroom, ate food, kept ( Read more... )

Pearl Siu Mai are really just fried-rice dumplings. A great way to use up leftover rice, and to stretch that bit of minced pork just as faaaar as it can go. Or at least this is what I have concluded, having just completed making a batch of the filling for the second time ever. Puppydog&Co. are having a New Years' party tomorrow, and I decided to ( Read more... )